He was convicted of selling 413 pirated video games and Playstation mod-chips.
Yes the convinction was that he was giving 413 pirated video games and taking money for mod-chip installation since installing mod-chips is not illegal. Basically, joe smith would walk into his store and purchase a mod-chip for $30 or so and then walk out of the store with 413 new games and a playstation that can play them too.
I know that there aren't 413 GAMES available for the Playstation 2!
For someone who read the article you sure didn't pay any attention to it. Never did anything once claim to even incinuate that these were PS2 games. It quite clearly stated several times that the games were for the Sony Playstation.
Sony doesn't call their Playstation 2 the PS/2, perhaps because they don't want to get sued. Does slashdot want to get sued?
You should actually read the article you claimed to have read and at least state where this PS2 stuff is coming from. Journalism here is not the problem. Illiteracy is;-)
Perhaps I'm just doing something wrong then but I used to do this (and still have it working on normal sawfish) but the latest and greatest version of sawfish2 from the garnome-0.10 installation got rid of viewports all together and the workspaces are 1 dimensional and you cannot drag windows from one to another like you can with viewports. Does anyone know why they removed that or am i just on drugs?
lol. You know you are correct. I just checked the themes folder of the latest install of it and sure enough Crux did somehow make it in there. This is a classic example of why it needs a better gui configuration tools so that people like me who do not pay attention to the directory structures can actually realize it when new themes come up.
They should at least throw the metacity-theme-viewer in the preferences folder by default like they do with all the other gnome theming tools.
I have used both window managers frequently for about 4 or 5 months now (sawfish2 and metacity that is) and find both of them fast, stable, and great products overall from a user perspective.
Configurability is easily in favor of sawfish right now but that is only because there is not a gui configurator for metacity currently afaik. However, i knew how to make the modifications I wanted and everything works identically to sawfish so no big worries there.
Port over Crux to metacity and you will have another convert.. until then sawfish rulez!
The BIGGEST factor keeping me from using metacity full time is that the Crux theme has not been ported over to it and I cannot figure out how to make metacity themes (or sawfish themes for that matter) and I really hate the look of the default metacity theme when combined with the Crux gtk and gtk2 themes.
which is slimmer, faster, and arguably renders better than mozilla.
IE is bigger, slower, and renders not quite as well as mozilla. Reasons:
bigger) Just not noticed because IE is loaded when the operating system is loaded itself so the average person does not realize that they loaded a very big and complex browser and just think that the extra 30+ seconds after the desktop shows up is normal. There are tools out there which allow you to remove IE from windows (wow. windows is actually more stable at that point as well) and you will see just how much bigger IE is.
slower) Again this is a illusion due to the fact that IE is already loaded into memory. Try loading up mozilla and then spawning a new browser to see which one goes faster.
renders better) Considering that mozzilla is actually W3C compliant and IE has lots of areas where it is not, I do not see how you can possible make this claim.
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do they have the right to seize all those 1's and 0's?
a compromise would be for them to seize the 1's and leave the 0's
Connectiva has been declared the safest operating system ever with combined vulnerabilities over the last 5 years equalling 0. Everyone in corporate america and those banks too should immediately through out all other operating systems and switch over to Connectiva.
Warning: Connectiva does not support vulnerabilities and all calls will be redirected to the nearest OS distributor.
To answer your question with as little verbiage as possible, small portions of code which are similar (and not common as in your example) are given a very small percentage point. The more often that it finds an identical algorithm the polynomial growth of the probability. Anything that is "common" codebase such as code given in class, text books, and other common things like sorting algorithms are allowed to be identical and thus does not alter the probability in any way.
I know this to be fact because I was a former STA at Georgia Tech and actually made a tweak or two to the cheat finder codebase.
If it is anything more complex than a diff (multiple files, compiler front-end, fancy perl parcing) this can take a mad amount of computing.
On average it takes about 8 to 12 hours for the cheat finder to finish checking for cheaters on the first few programs (very small programs with only a few functions) and about 1 to 2 days for the middle programs and about 3 to 5 days for that last couple of programs in the semester. The reason for the massive amount of time is because not only does it check for cheaters by comparing current semester assignments but also has a huge database of past assignments from past students dating back to 92 so those most of the people who get caught are those that use past semesters assignments.
Actually, until this past semester, the cheating detector was simply an urban legend here at GA Tech.
That is incorrect. I was an STA (supervisor teacher's assistant) at Tech from 1997 - 2000 and I even modified some of the code for the cheat finder (which is a perl script). It is not an urban legend and has been around since about 1992.
The professors have always described the cheat finder as a white-space-eliminating, pattern-matching, we-will-catch-you-every-time cheat detector.
The code does in fact throw away ALL variable names, function names, indentions, white spaces, braces, and other irrelevant items. It then does a comparison and anything below 97.9% similarity is thrown out as a non-cheater. Everything else is FLAGGED and then reviewed by 2 TA's and ALL the professors currently teaching that course.
They finally deployed the legendary cheat finder once and for all at the end of last semester, and caught a significant number of students.
As I said I've been an STA for a long time and I personally have sent over 10 students during that time to the dean and every semester we averaged about 20 to 40 cheaters. Of that 3 year period ONLY 2 people were exhonorated and 7 people claimed they did not do it. The rest even admitted to cheating.
The reason last semester so many were caught is because there were many students who believe that cheat finder is a legend. When you go around telling people that there has been a cheat finder since the early 90's and very few people can actually confirm this people do believe it to be an urban legend to scare kids and people are just wanting to take more chances the more they believe things are just scare tactics and nothing more.
Don't randomly spout off baseless claims just to sound good.
You might want to learn to read before spouting off baseless retorts. The original comment is talking about Windows XP not 2000 and there are major differences between the 2 operating systems.
XML is not a magic bullet. Relational database won out over the Hierarchical model for a lot of reasons. For instance, there exists a number of integrity constraints with the Hierarchical model such as
1) No record occurrences except root records can exist without being related to a parent record occurrence. This means that
a) a child record cannot be inserted unless it is linked to a parent record.
b) a child record may be deleted independently of its parent however, deletion of the parent record automatically results in the deletion of all its child and descendent records.
c) the above rules do not apply to virtual child records and virtual parent records.
2) If a child record has 2 or more parent records from the SAME record type, the child record must be duplicated once under each parent record.
3) A child record having 2 or more parent records of DIFFERENT record types can do so only by having at most 1 real parent, with all the others represented as virtual parents. IMS limites the number of virtual parents to 1.
In addition to these flaws, relational databases have had over a decade to become mature, optimized, and enterprise scalable. Harddrive partitioning for such databases as oracle work out perfectly with the cylinder, sector, and tracks of a hard drive to allow for the fastest read/write times as can be possible.
Too often people see that XML "can" do so many things and decides that it should be the way things are done but XML is NOT a magic bullet and just because it has the potential to do something does not make it the best methodology for doing so.
I know exactly how you feel about this as I too have had delusions of grandure since I was 12 (I've already graduated college now). I remember making games using Amiga Basic and thinking about how cool it was and in high school I begged and pleaded my teachers to take independent study courses so that I could learn something beyond the "hello world" programs in pascal.
Up until college I could never get enough about computers and I constantly pushed myself into making programs that do things that I've never done before. I kept pushing myself thinking that this would be the only way for me to make it to a credible computer science college.
Needless to say I made it to college with relative ease. My first year at college I was so excited and ready to absorb everything that they threw out at me... until I saw what they were throwing. I told myself, this is my freshmen year and that they are probably just bringing everyone up to what I thought was par in high school and I kepted with it.
Then came my sophmore year of college. Well it was better then the remedial stuff they were teaching a year ago and the work they made us do was definately very time consuming but it was not really teaching me anything either. That is when I made my decision.
I went through my junior and senior years of college doing the bare minimum I needed to not fail any of my classes so I could graduate in time but I really spent most of my time sitting in on graduate level courses (and a couple of phd level courses) and unofficially started taking those classes. I did not care if I got credit for them or not, I was simply interested in learning more and being able to change the world like I had always dreamed about.
My GPA dropped down to 2.88 (from 3.91 my sophmore year) by the time I graduated but that didn't really matter because I knew more then most graduate students did and in those interviews I could easily prove how much potential I had to the point that out of 35 interviews only 2 people even asked me for a transcript.
The point of this is that college isn't going to be the solution you think it is because even the best universities are designed for the lowest common demoniator to some degree and it will eventually become dull and boring. Most graduate level courses will let you sit in on them if you talk to the professor politely and do not expect them to grade your stuff. They are usually more then happy to teach you like a regular student and in CS most of the non-theory courses you can grade yourself simply by determining if your program does what it is suppose to or not.
I have no regrets about sacrificing my highest honors potential for the invaluable amount of knowledge that I gained by taking classes that I got no recognition for. The advantage that I got in the real world because of it far exceeds anything that a high GPA could ever do.
Having used both AT&T RoadRunner (their cable modem service) and ComCast's cable modem service each for over a year I can honestly say that AT&T RoadRunner is much better. Why? Because in
Installation
AT&T: Takes 2 days (called on Thursday installed on Saturday) for them to come out and install it.
ComCast: Takes them 9 months to install (every month I called them up and they said they will be out there in 4 to 6 weeks).
Linux Support
AT&T: Refuses to support linux and gives no guarantee that it will work with linux (simple as setting up an ethernet connection though).
ComCast: Claims to give full support for linux but when you actually call them up for support they say that you have to be using windows because nobody at tech support knows linux.
Price
AT&T: charges $39.99 plus $9.99 for modem rental yours to keep after 12 months.
ComCast: charges $39.99 plus $9.99 for modem rental yours to keep after 12 months.
Modem
AT&T uses 3Com which is compatible with ComCast.
ComCast: uses a model which is only compatible with ComCast.
Speed
AT&T: has max transfer rates of 220k/second download and 60k/second upload
ComCast: has max transfer rates of 100k/second download and 100k/second upload
Technical Support
AT&T: are polite and helpful without treating you like an idiot and have wait times of around 5 minutes.
ComCast: have wait times around 30 minutes with only 9 to 5 support Monday through Fridays. Treat you like idiots and do not analyse the problem that you tell them until 45 minutes of running through there standard procedure diagnosis before finally reaching the error that you told them it was.
Having used both AT&T RoadRunner (their cable modem service) and ComCast's cable modem service each for over a year I can honestly say that AT&T RoadRunner is much better. Why? Because in
Installation
AT&T) Takes 2 days (called on Thursday installed on Saturday) for them to come out and install it. ComCast) Takes them 9 months to install (every month I called them up and they said they will be out there in 4 to 6 weeks).
Linux Support
AT&T) Refuses to support linux and gives no guarantee that it will work with linux (simple as setting up an ethernet connection though).
ComCast) Claims to give full support for linux but when you actually call them up for support they say that you have to be using windows because nobody at tech support knows linux.
Price
AT&T) charges $39.99 plus $9.99 for modem rental yours to keep after 12 months.
ComCast) charges $39.99 plus $9.99 for modem rental yours to keep after 12 months.
Modem
AT&T) uses 3Com which is compatible with ComCast.
ComCast) uses a model which is only compatible with ComCast.
Speed
AT&T) has max transfer rates of 220k/second download and 60k/second upload
ComCast) has max transfer rates of 100k/second download and 100k/second upload
Technical Support
AT&T) are polite and helpful without treating you like an idiot and have wait times of around 5 minutes.
ComCast) have wait times around 30 minutes with only 9 to 5 support Monday through Fridays. Treat you like idiots and do not analyse the problem that you tell them until 45 minutes of running through there standard procedure diagnosis before finally reaching the error that you told them it was.
Out of all the browsers that I've been using (and I've used almost all of them) I've found Galeon to be the absolute best for handling popups. The reason is because it has a simple little checkbox that you can click to completely disable popups. There is another checkbox that you can click that forces all popups to show up in new tabs (and does NOT change the focus away from the page). I prefer the later checkbox myself but for those who want to remove popups completely it is as simple a clicking a box:)
Re:journaling is nice, but how about a better RAID
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Results from my shitty IDE hard drive.
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.91 seconds =140.66 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 17.54 seconds = 3.65 MB/sec
3.65 MB/sec on my 100mbit network means that my hard drive is the slower of the two:(
mod_perl and mod_php are most likely going to be your optimal solutions. They are very well optimized for large performances and the retain the code in memory for faster execution. In terms of perl, mod_perl is MUCH faster then FastCGI but there is a larger memory requirement. mod_php is IMHO the better way of going but then again, mod_php is only available on the unix platforms which defeat your cross-platform desires (I'm not sure if mod_perl is on win32 boxes or not). PHP alone is not capable of handling the demands that you are talking about but because of the way that mod_php caches and retains in memory the php scripts it is also a faster solution and you are having to make less requests to the harddrive which cause the minimal but neccessary speed increases. However, your overall best bet is to do some kind of content distributing and pushing the contents closer to the users regionally and/or server clustering is probably a must.
Firstly, I'm sure this has been discussed on/. before, but is CSS really encryption? It seems that it's more of just an encoding/compression scheme. There are no public/private keys envolved.
The public/private key encryption system is commonly known as a form of RSA encryption. There are also other types of encryption such as Rot-13, Ceasar, Cypher, and a others which I cannot recall at the time. The reason RSA encryption is used everywhere is because of the reasons you mentioned in that a person who figured out the key would be limited in cracking only a single individuals contents. Anything that intentionally changes the contents of something for the explicit purpose of preventing unwanted people from viewing it is encryption.
Pkzip, Winzip, etc... are not considered encryption because they do no change the contents for the purpose of preventing unwanted people from viewing it. Placing a password on a zip package would be encryption.
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to me that Ximian's Red Carpet project seems to do everything that apt-get does. It allows for searching of all kinds of servers for filenames, breaks up updates into categories like security or recommended, etc... It automatically resolves dependencies, allows for multiple server checking, AND it works for debian and rpm packages. In addition to that, it is GUI based so any newbie can use it safely and intuitivly.
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He was convicted of selling 413 pirated video games and Playstation mod-chips.
;-)
Yes the convinction was that he was giving 413 pirated video games and taking money for mod-chip installation since installing mod-chips is not illegal. Basically, joe smith would walk into his store and purchase a mod-chip for $30 or so and then walk out of the store with 413 new games and a playstation that can play them too.
I know that there aren't 413 GAMES available for the Playstation 2!
For someone who read the article you sure didn't pay any attention to it. Never did anything once claim to even incinuate that these were PS2 games. It quite clearly stated several times that the games were for the Sony Playstation.
Sony doesn't call their Playstation 2 the PS/2, perhaps because they don't want to get sued. Does slashdot want to get sued?
You should actually read the article you claimed to have read and at least state where this PS2 stuff is coming from. Journalism here is not the problem. Illiteracy is
And is it really fair to compare IE with Mozilla1.1a, an alpha-release of mozilla, which is aimed at bugtesters and developers?
:-)
I think so considering that both products are still in the unstable development phase with a lot of bugtesters
Perhaps I'm just doing something wrong then but I used to do this (and still have it working on normal sawfish) but the latest and greatest version of sawfish2 from the garnome-0.10 installation got rid of viewports all together and the workspaces are 1 dimensional and you cannot drag windows from one to another like you can with viewports. Does anyone know why they removed that or am i just on drugs?
lol. You know you are correct. I just checked the themes folder of the latest install of it and sure enough Crux did somehow make it in there. This is a classic example of why it needs a better gui configuration tools so that people like me who do not pay attention to the directory structures can actually realize it when new themes come up.
They should at least throw the metacity-theme-viewer in the preferences folder by default like they do with all the other gnome theming tools.
I have used both window managers frequently for about 4 or 5 months now (sawfish2 and metacity that is) and find both of them fast, stable, and great products overall from a user perspective.
.. until then sawfish rulez!
Configurability is easily in favor of sawfish right now but that is only because there is not a gui configurator for metacity currently afaik. However, i knew how to make the modifications I wanted and everything works identically to sawfish so no big worries there.
Port over Crux to metacity and you will have another convert
The BIGGEST factor keeping me from using metacity full time is that the Crux theme has not been ported over to it and I cannot figure out how to make metacity themes (or sawfish themes for that matter) and I really hate the look of the default metacity theme when combined with the Crux gtk and gtk2 themes.
which is slimmer, faster, and arguably renders better than mozilla.
IE is bigger, slower, and renders not quite as well as mozilla. Reasons:
bigger) Just not noticed because IE is loaded when the operating system is loaded itself so the average person does not realize that they loaded a very big and complex browser and just think that the extra 30+ seconds after the desktop shows up is normal. There are tools out there which allow you to remove IE from windows (wow. windows is actually more stable at that point as well) and you will see just how much bigger IE is.
slower) Again this is a illusion due to the fact that IE is already loaded into memory. Try loading up mozilla and then spawning a new browser to see which one goes faster.
renders better) Considering that mozzilla is actually W3C compliant and IE has lots of areas where it is not, I do not see how you can possible make this claim.
do they have the right to seize all those 1's and 0's?
a compromise would be for them to seize the 1's and leave the 0's
Connectiva has been declared the safest operating system ever with combined vulnerabilities over the last 5 years equalling 0. Everyone in corporate america and those banks too should immediately through out all other operating systems and switch over to Connectiva.
Warning: Connectiva does not support vulnerabilities and all calls will be redirected to the nearest OS distributor.
To answer your question with as little verbiage as possible, small portions of code which are similar (and not common as in your example) are given a very small percentage point. The more often that it finds an identical algorithm the polynomial growth of the probability. Anything that is "common" codebase such as code given in class, text books, and other common things like sorting algorithms are allowed to be identical and thus does not alter the probability in any way.
I know this to be fact because I was a former STA at Georgia Tech and actually made a tweak or two to the cheat finder codebase.
If it is anything more complex than a diff (multiple files, compiler front-end, fancy perl parcing) this can take a mad amount of computing.
On average it takes about 8 to 12 hours for the cheat finder to finish checking for cheaters on the first few programs (very small programs with only a few functions) and about 1 to 2 days for the middle programs and about 3 to 5 days for that last couple of programs in the semester. The reason for the massive amount of time is because not only does it check for cheaters by comparing current semester assignments but also has a huge database of past assignments from past students dating back to 92 so those most of the people who get caught are those that use past semesters assignments.
Actually, until this past semester, the cheating detector was simply an urban legend here at GA Tech.
That is incorrect. I was an STA (supervisor teacher's assistant) at Tech from 1997 - 2000 and I even modified some of the code for the cheat finder (which is a perl script). It is not an urban legend and has been around since about 1992.
The professors have always described the cheat finder as a white-space-eliminating, pattern-matching, we-will-catch-you-every-time cheat detector.
The code does in fact throw away ALL variable names, function names, indentions, white spaces, braces, and other irrelevant items. It then does a comparison and anything below 97.9% similarity is thrown out as a non-cheater. Everything else is FLAGGED and then reviewed by 2 TA's and ALL the professors currently teaching that course.
They finally deployed the legendary cheat finder once and for all at the end of last semester, and caught a significant number of students.
As I said I've been an STA for a long time and I personally have sent over 10 students during that time to the dean and every semester we averaged about 20 to 40 cheaters. Of that 3 year period ONLY 2 people were exhonorated and 7 people claimed they did not do it. The rest even admitted to cheating.
The reason last semester so many were caught is because there were many students who believe that cheat finder is a legend. When you go around telling people that there has been a cheat finder since the early 90's and very few people can actually confirm this people do believe it to be an urban legend to scare kids and people are just wanting to take more chances the more they believe things are just scare tactics and nothing more.
Don't randomly spout off baseless claims just to sound good.
You might want to learn to read before spouting off baseless retorts. The original comment is talking about Windows XP not 2000 and there are major differences between the 2 operating systems.
You must be joking. Everyone knows that microsoft code never has comments.
XML is not a magic bullet. Relational database won out over the Hierarchical model for a lot of reasons. For instance, there exists a number of integrity constraints with the Hierarchical model such as
1) No record occurrences except root records can exist without being related to a parent record occurrence. This means that
a) a child record cannot be inserted unless it is linked to a parent record.
b) a child record may be deleted independently of its parent however, deletion of the parent record automatically results in the deletion of all its child and descendent records.
c) the above rules do not apply to virtual child records and virtual parent records.
2) If a child record has 2 or more parent records from the SAME record type, the child record must be duplicated once under each parent record.
3) A child record having 2 or more parent records of DIFFERENT record types can do so only by having at most 1 real parent, with all the others represented as virtual parents. IMS limites the number of virtual parents to 1.
In addition to these flaws, relational databases have had over a decade to become mature, optimized, and enterprise scalable. Harddrive partitioning for such databases as oracle work out perfectly with the cylinder, sector, and tracks of a hard drive to allow for the fastest read/write times as can be possible.
Too often people see that XML "can" do so many things and decides that it should be the way things are done but XML is NOT a magic bullet and just because it has the potential to do something does not make it the best methodology for doing so.
I know exactly how you feel about this as I too have had delusions of grandure since I was 12 (I've already graduated college now). I remember making games using Amiga Basic and thinking about how cool it was and in high school I begged and pleaded my teachers to take independent study courses so that I could learn something beyond the "hello world" programs in pascal.
... until I saw what they were throwing. I told myself, this is my freshmen year and that they are probably just bringing everyone up to what I thought was par in high school and I kepted with it.
Up until college I could never get enough about computers and I constantly pushed myself into making programs that do things that I've never done before. I kept pushing myself thinking that this would be the only way for me to make it to a credible computer science college.
Needless to say I made it to college with relative ease. My first year at college I was so excited and ready to absorb everything that they threw out at me
Then came my sophmore year of college. Well it was better then the remedial stuff they were teaching a year ago and the work they made us do was definately very time consuming but it was not really teaching me anything either. That is when I made my decision.
I went through my junior and senior years of college doing the bare minimum I needed to not fail any of my classes so I could graduate in time but I really spent most of my time sitting in on graduate level courses (and a couple of phd level courses) and unofficially started taking those classes. I did not care if I got credit for them or not, I was simply interested in learning more and being able to change the world like I had always dreamed about.
My GPA dropped down to 2.88 (from 3.91 my sophmore year) by the time I graduated but that didn't really matter because I knew more then most graduate students did and in those interviews I could easily prove how much potential I had to the point that out of 35 interviews only 2 people even asked me for a transcript.
The point of this is that college isn't going to be the solution you think it is because even the best universities are designed for the lowest common demoniator to some degree and it will eventually become dull and boring. Most graduate level courses will let you sit in on them if you talk to the professor politely and do not expect them to grade your stuff. They are usually more then happy to teach you like a regular student and in CS most of the non-theory courses you can grade yourself simply by determining if your program does what it is suppose to or not.
I have no regrets about sacrificing my highest honors potential for the invaluable amount of knowledge that I gained by taking classes that I got no recognition for. The advantage that I got in the real world because of it far exceeds anything that a high GPA could ever do.
Having used both AT&T RoadRunner (their cable modem service) and ComCast's cable modem service each for over a year I can honestly say that AT&T RoadRunner is much better. Why? Because in
Installation
AT&T: Takes 2 days (called on Thursday installed on Saturday) for them to come out and install it.
ComCast: Takes them 9 months to install (every month I called them up and they said they will be out there in 4 to 6 weeks).
Linux Support
AT&T: Refuses to support linux and gives no guarantee that it will work with linux (simple as setting up an ethernet connection though).
ComCast: Claims to give full support for linux but when you actually call them up for support they say that you have to be using windows because nobody at tech support knows linux.
Price
AT&T: charges $39.99 plus $9.99 for modem rental yours to keep after 12 months.
ComCast: charges $39.99 plus $9.99 for modem rental yours to keep after 12 months.
Modem
AT&T uses 3Com which is compatible with ComCast.
ComCast: uses a model which is only compatible with ComCast.
Speed
AT&T: has max transfer rates of 220k/second download and 60k/second upload
ComCast: has max transfer rates of 100k/second download and 100k/second upload
Technical Support
AT&T: are polite and helpful without treating you like an idiot and have wait times of around 5 minutes.
ComCast: have wait times around 30 minutes with only 9 to 5 support Monday through Fridays. Treat you like idiots and do not analyse the problem that you tell them until 45 minutes of running through there standard procedure diagnosis before finally reaching the error that you told them it was.
Having used both AT&T RoadRunner (their cable modem service) and ComCast's cable modem service each for over a year I can honestly say that AT&T RoadRunner is much better. Why? Because in Installation AT&T) Takes 2 days (called on Thursday installed on Saturday) for them to come out and install it. ComCast) Takes them 9 months to install (every month I called them up and they said they will be out there in 4 to 6 weeks). Linux Support AT&T) Refuses to support linux and gives no guarantee that it will work with linux (simple as setting up an ethernet connection though). ComCast) Claims to give full support for linux but when you actually call them up for support they say that you have to be using windows because nobody at tech support knows linux. Price AT&T) charges $39.99 plus $9.99 for modem rental yours to keep after 12 months. ComCast) charges $39.99 plus $9.99 for modem rental yours to keep after 12 months. Modem AT&T) uses 3Com which is compatible with ComCast. ComCast) uses a model which is only compatible with ComCast. Speed AT&T) has max transfer rates of 220k/second download and 60k/second upload ComCast) has max transfer rates of 100k/second download and 100k/second upload Technical Support AT&T) are polite and helpful without treating you like an idiot and have wait times of around 5 minutes. ComCast) have wait times around 30 minutes with only 9 to 5 support Monday through Fridays. Treat you like idiots and do not analyse the problem that you tell them until 45 minutes of running through there standard procedure diagnosis before finally reaching the error that you told them it was.
Out of all the browsers that I've been using (and I've used almost all of them) I've found Galeon to be the absolute best for handling popups. The reason is because it has a simple little checkbox that you can click to completely disable popups. There is another checkbox that you can click that forces all popups to show up in new tabs (and does NOT change the focus away from the page). I prefer the later checkbox myself but for those who want to remove popups completely it is as simple a clicking a box :)
Results from my shitty IDE hard drive.
:(
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.91 seconds =140.66 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 17.54 seconds = 3.65 MB/sec
3.65 MB/sec on my 100mbit network means that my hard drive is the slower of the two
And using them will make you want to go gcj@#$!@#
Talk about a nightmarish java compiler.
mod_perl and mod_php are most likely going to be your optimal solutions. They are very well optimized for large performances and the retain the code in memory for faster execution. In terms of perl, mod_perl is MUCH faster then FastCGI but there is a larger memory requirement. mod_php is IMHO the better way of going but then again, mod_php is only available on the unix platforms which defeat your cross-platform desires (I'm not sure if mod_perl is on win32 boxes or not). PHP alone is not capable of handling the demands that you are talking about but because of the way that mod_php caches and retains in memory the php scripts it is also a faster solution and you are having to make less requests to the harddrive which cause the minimal but neccessary speed increases. However, your overall best bet is to do some kind of content distributing and pushing the contents closer to the users regionally and/or server clustering is probably a must.
The public/private key encryption system is commonly known as a form of RSA encryption. There are also other types of encryption such as Rot-13, Ceasar, Cypher, and a others which I cannot recall at the time. The reason RSA encryption is used everywhere is because of the reasons you mentioned in that a person who figured out the key would be limited in cracking only a single individuals contents. Anything that intentionally changes the contents of something for the explicit purpose of preventing unwanted people from viewing it is encryption.
Pkzip, Winzip, etc... are not considered encryption because they do no change the contents for the purpose of preventing unwanted people from viewing it. Placing a password on a zip package would be encryption.
Hope this clears things up a little.
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to me that Ximian's Red Carpet project seems to do everything that apt-get does. It allows for searching of all kinds of servers for filenames, breaks up updates into categories like security or recommended, etc... It automatically resolves dependencies, allows for multiple server checking, AND it works for debian and rpm packages. In addition to that, it is GUI based so any newbie can use it safely and intuitivly.